Wire joint



May 8, 1923- 1,454,156

' G. DINCOGNITO" WIRE JOINT Filed Jan. 1923 w s J/larm? I Patented May 8, 1923.

UNITE srae GUY DIN'COGNITO, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

"WIRE JOINT. l

Application filed January 6, 1923. Serial No. 610,982.

1 '0 all whom it may concern: I I Be it known that I, GUY DINCOGNITO,

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire joints and has for its ob ect the provision of a construction of, this character particularly adapted for use in wire lamp-shade frames, which joints will be inconspicuous and at tractive in appearance,strongand durable, and economical of manufacture.

Other objects will appear hereinafter. v

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by.

' my invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a view partly in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 showing the joints in position to have a binding agent applied thereto; and

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the completed oints.

The present invention is an improvement on the construction shown and described in my companion application filed January 6, 1923, Serial No. 610,981, and contemplates wire joints of a type particularly adapted for use in wire lamp-shade frames, in which the various wires for the frame are angularly bent in various ways to impart the de sired shape thereto.

A portion of a wire lamp-shade frame is illustrated in Fig. 1, in which 5 represents a member, which for the purposes of this description I will designatev a frame wire. A plurality of members 6 which I will refer to as web wires, each has one end connected to the frame wire 5 by means of a reduced end, forming a type ofjoint shown and described in my application above referred to, the opposite ends of the wires 6 being connected to a frame wire (not shown) similar to the wire 5.

As shown in Fig. 2, when used in connection with a lamp-shade frame, each of the members 6 is preferably angularly bent in-' wardly at any desirable point as shown at 7,

and on the outer side of said bend there is provided a reduced portion 1 preferably in the form of a notch '8. Disposed at an angle to the wire 6 and adapted to be placed withinthenotch' 8 is a member 9 which Iwill' referto as a'brace' wire. lVhen the wire 6 is bent and provided with the notch '8, and the wire 9 placed in said notch, as shown in Fig; 2, it is apparent that when a binding agent is applied to the parts, a'joint is provided 'on'the outer side of thebent portion as shown at 10 in Fig. 3, which'ispscarcely noticeable. j

The wire 6 may also be outwardly bent as shown at 11 in Fig. 2, such wire havinga reduced portion forining'a notch 12 on the inner side of the bend, the notch. in this instance preferably being undercut and almost closed. Disposed at an angle to the wire 6 is a brace wire 13, said bracewire being receiveable in the notch 12 as shown, it being apparent in this constructionthat by reason of the shape of the notch, the brace wire 13 is held therein without otherwise securing the same, though it. is preferred to apply a binding agent such as solder to the parts which provides a joint of the character shown at 14 in Fig. 3.

By the above described arrangement it is apparent that. the joints thus formed are practically unnoticeable, thereby doing away with the objectionable and unattrac tive joints which would be produced if the wires 6 were not altered in the manner described.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I. 1

therefore, do not wish tobe limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: I

1. A joint of the character described comprising a member having a bend therein, said member being reduced at the inner side of said bend to form an undercut notch, and

another member disposed at an angle-to said first member and mounted in said notch.

2. A joint of the character described com-- risin a member havin an an ularl bent portion therein, said bent portion being reduced at the outside vof said angular portion to form a notch in its outside surface, another member disposed insaid notch, and means for binding together the joint thus formed.

3. A joint of the character described comprising a member having a bend therein,

,said member being reduced at the inner side of said bend, another member disposed at an angle thereto and engaging said reduced portion, and means for binding together the joint thus formed.

4. A joint of the character described comprising a member having a bend therein, said member being reduced at the inner side of said bend to form an undercut notch, another member disposed at an angle to said first member and mounted in said notch,

M: and means for binding together the joint thus formed.

A fabric lncluding a frame more, Web wires connected to said frame Wire and at an angle thereto, each of said Wires being bent inwardly and then outwardly, said Wire being reduced adjacent the outer side oi the inwardly bent portion and reduced on the inner side of the outwardly bent portion, brace Wires engaging said reduced portions, and means for binding together the joints thus formed.

6. A joint of the character described comprising a member having an angular bend therein, said member being reduced at the inner side of said bend to form an undercut notch having curved Walls, and another member disposed at an angle to said first member, said other member being round in cross-section and mounted in said notch.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GUY DINCOGNITO.

Witnesses:

' JOSHUA R. H. Po'rrs,

CLARENCE E. THREEDY. 

